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...Testament has less to say about the trials of being son and heir, but it does include a figure who would one day be of interest to William Franklin Graham III. That is of course the prodigal son, who, responding to pressures that have gone unrecorded, abandoned the straight and narrow and squandered his money before seeing the error of his ways and throwing himself on his father's mercy, and God's. He once was lost, and then was found...
...Dear Little Billy Frank Jr. ...We heard...that your Daddy has new help for preaching God's truth...So grow up fast," said another. That was the fate prescribed for the boy born, after a succession of three girls, in Montreat, North Carolina, on July 14, 1952. He was heir presumptive to the world's most famous preacher, Billy Graham, a name already thundering out of the evangelical South, resounding through the nation and around the world in one mammoth revival meeting after another. A Catholic fan wrote the father: "I'll bet that your new boy will...
...leading Turks, Ovitz's boy wonder and former heir presumptive Jay Moloney, 30, has been in and out of a rehab clinic for drug abuse since last fall; he was due to return to work this week following a lengthy recovery. Moloney's absence has left power concentrated in the hands of agency president Richard Lovett, 35. A go-getter nicknamed L'Ovitz, Lovett has worked at CAA for more than a decade, handling Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Nicolas Cage and other A-listers. The perception is that Lovett is performing well, if not exactly thriving...
...beginning of the end, though, came in 1966 when a Dutchess County (New York) assistant D.A. named G. Gordon Liddy raided Leary's Millbrook mansion, which the doctor used courtesy of an Andrew Mellon heir. Two minor-possession arrests eventually landed Leary in a San Luis Obispo, California, prison in 1970, but he escaped with the help of the radical Weather Underground, then materialized among the Black Panthers in Algeria. Betrayed and recaptured in 1973, Leary spent most of the next three years in prison. When he was released, he turned his attentions to SMILE (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life...
Next month the Laserblast episode will take MST3K out in style, with deftly flicked allusions to, among others, Eddie Deezen ("heir to the Arnold Stang fortune"), Ram Dass, Georgia O'Keeffe, Haile Selassie, Sister Mary Elephant, Iron Eyes Cody and Roddy McDowall ("as Dr. Casabamelon"). Crow notes that "this movie was run through a highly technical process called 'tension extraction.'" And in an especially inert section of Laserblast, Servo says what might be said of any MST3K experiment: "There's a point where it stops being a movie...